~ WHAT COLOR DO YOU THINK THIS DRESS IS ? ~

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27 Feb 2015, 5:14 am

Two colors:

Black and blue

-I think people are seeing "gold" with the sunlight reflections
-and white due to the two different tones of blue on the striped portions; though it's probably just "two tones" due to shadows



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27 Feb 2015, 5:31 am

What annoys me is that this wouldn't even be a such a global debate if the person who took the photo knew how to use white balance on the camera...



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27 Feb 2015, 5:46 am

I saw only white/gold for quite a while and thought this was all madness, then I switched tabs and back again and it was blue/black. Blinked a few times and it changed back again. It's really just a bit of an optical illusion but it is funny how much outrage it has caused :)



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27 Feb 2015, 6:13 am

O, and go to hell all you gold and white lovers and bi-colored!

-Black and blue master color



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27 Feb 2015, 6:21 am

Image

Out of curiosity, on the bottom left half of this image, behind the dress there is a two tone patterned material. That is black and white from my perspective. Is it the same for other people?



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27 Feb 2015, 6:24 am

It's hot pink with yellow polka dots.

You're all blind.



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27 Feb 2015, 6:24 am

I read the color is related to the brightness/color settings of your screen.

I see white and gold.


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27 Feb 2015, 6:25 am

The stuff on the rack looks cream and black to me.



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27 Feb 2015, 6:36 am

Tilted the screen forward on my laptop and I can see how it would look like a muted black and a light blue.



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27 Feb 2015, 7:07 am

AGH IT'S WHITE AND GOLD AGAIN.

Argh, fuses blown now!



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27 Feb 2015, 7:22 am

Indigo/Charcoal Gray



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27 Feb 2015, 8:01 am

I believe someone who mentioned bad "white balance" got it right -- this image's white balance was on the incorrect setting when the picture was taken.

The dress may very well be white with gold trim or rather, the nearest thing to what's called "gold" in plain fabric, which is a kind of light brown.

People who are used to making an internal mental adjustment for seeing a bluish digital image that they know has bad white balance for the lighting situation, will see that the dress "in person" is probably white with gold trim.

People who literally take what's on screen as gospel, are looking at their monitor from an angle that appears to darken the screen, or who have darker screen settings employed, will see almost black trim against a very blue dress. I can see that if I put my head down lower to my screen. But if I don't, I can "understand" the bluish image as conveying what was probably a white and gold dress.

So, I think it's a white and gold dress but the digital image is color-cast because it was photographed with a camera that had the wrong setting for the lighting.



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27 Feb 2015, 8:09 am

BirdInFlight wrote:
I believe someone who mentioned bad "white balance" got it right -- this image's white balance was on the incorrect setting when the picture was taken.

The dress may very well be white with gold trim or rather, the nearest thing to what's called "gold" in plain fabric, which is a kind of light brown.

People who are used to making an internal mental adjustment for seeing a bluish digital image that they know has bad white balance for the lighting situation, will see that the dress "in person" is probably white with gold trim.

People who literally take what's on screen as gospel, are looking at their monitor from an angle that appears to darken the screen, or who have darker screen settings employed, will see almost black trim against a very blue dress. I can see that if I put my head down lower to my screen. But if I don't, I can "understand" the bluish image as conveying what was probably a white and gold dress.

So, I think it's a white and gold dress but the digital image is color-cast because it was photographed with a camera that had the wrong setting for the lighting.


Actually, the true dress really is blue and black: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/explained-wh ... 81639.html

Scroll down a bit to see the original listing for the dress itself, and a neutral photo of it (like you see in online shopping sites).



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27 Feb 2015, 8:11 am

Nah.

The sunlight coming through the dress is messing with people.

Objectively, it's:

-black (which has bronze/brown areas where the light is coming through strong; that's what happens to black material when in sunlight)
-blue

I can't see where people are getting white for the blue from, unless it's a monitor artifact with people having their brightness/contrast/color up high.



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27 Feb 2015, 8:24 am

Periwinkle blue and poop brown. It might even be lilac. Whatever it is it's an ugly dress.



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